A96093:2177
The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The Apostle sets forth the excellency of this grace ⟨p. 622⟩of love Comparative, by laying it in the balance with other graces, ver. 13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity; these three, but the greatest of these is charity. He compares love with faith and hope, and then sets the crown upon love; indeed in some sense Faith is greater than charity.
3. The Apostle sets forth the excellency of this grace ⟨p. 622⟩of love Comparative, by laying it in the ballance with other graces, ver. 13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity; these three, but the greatest of these is charity. He compares love with faith and hope, and then sets the ctown upon love; indeed in some sense Faith is greater than charity.
1. Ordine causalitatis, in respect of causality; faith is the cause of charity; therefore more noble; for as Austin saith,* though the root of the tree be not seen, yet all the beauty of the branches proceeds from the Root: So all the beauty that sparkles in love proceeds from the Root of Faith.
1. Ordine causalitatis, in respect of causality; faith is the cause of charity; therefore more noble; for as Austin saith,* though the root of the tree be not seen, yet all the beauty of the branches procee'ds from the Root: So all the beauty that sparckles in love proceeds from the Root of Faith.
- *Quicquid pulchritudinis in arbore ex radice proficiscitur.